Sep 23–26, 2019

James Terwilliger
Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

James Terwilliger is a principal software development engineer at Microsoft, where he’s a 10-year veteran, having spent time on both product and research teams. He began as an intern during the last year of his PhD research at Portland State University. His background is in innovative data query and exploration interfaces and streaming data processing. At Microsoft, he helped develop the PowerQuery extension to Excel that is now the default data tab there, and now works on the Trill temporal data engine. Whatever he works on, he finds a way to add Pivot and Unpivot to it.

Sessions

4:35pm–5:15pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1A 15/16

Trill: The crown jewel of Microsoft’s streaming pipeline explained

Data Engineering and Architecture, Streaming and IoT

Secondary topics: Cloud Platforms and SaaS, Data Integration and Data Processing, Media and Advertising, Streaming and IoT

James Terwilliger (Microsoft Corporation), Badrish Chandramouli (Microsoft Research), Jonathan Goldstein (Microsoft Research)

Trill has been open-sourced, making the streaming engine behind services like the Bing Ads platform available for all to use and extend. James Terwilliger, Badrish Chandramouli, and Jonathan Goldstein dive into the history of and insights from streaming data at Microsoft. They demonstrate how its API can power complex application logic and the performance that gives the engine its name. Read more.